[Bug 216707] exp-run: Update lang/gcc from GCC 4.9 to GCC 5

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--- Comment #18 from Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Jan Beich (mail not working) from comment #17)
> Hmm, not much bustage thanks to DragonFly dogfooding GCC 5 before us.

:).

> (In reply to Pedro F. Giffuni from comment #3)
>> why not jump directly to GCC6 instead of GCC5?
>
> Why not GCC 7? exp-runs are slow and often contain false positives. Having more
> results at once would speed up fixing similar issues en masse using portmgr 
> hatchet^W blanket, a win in the long run. If there're many misoptimizations or 
> compiler crashes we can backtrack to GCC 6 or just temporarily pin those few 
> ports to an older version.

GCC version bumps are not fun so yes, it would be nicer to be a step ahead.

IMO, the criteria is that GCC 6 is the latest supported version.
GCC 7 is likely to be unstable enough upstream won't do any claims.

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